Cannabidiol / CBD

August 14th, 2018 - The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) announced that on August 10th, Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, and officials at Health Canada issued a decision to allow industrial hemp farmers to undertake whole plant harvest...

May 2nd. 2018 - A federal appeals court this week dealt a blow to makers of CBD-rich cannabis
extracts who were trying to stop the Drug Enforcement Administration from considering their products as dangerous drugs.
On April 30th, the Ninth Circuit...

April 19th, 2018 - A British pharmaceutical company is closer to getting its CBD medicine to the U.S. market with the government’s blessing, a first for the cannabis industry and potential game-changer for all marijuana and cannabidiol producers.
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March 25th, 2018 - While Cannabidiol (CBD) has received attention for it's therapeutic potential in treating epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, recently, CBD has also been explored for potential in treating drug addiction. Substance use disorders are chronically...

October 30th, 2017 - GW Pharmaceuticals and its U.S. Subsidiary Greenwich Biosciences Completes Rolling New Drug Application Submission to U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Epidiolex® (cannabidiol) in the Treatment of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and Dravet...

August 5th, 2017 - The largest survey on cannabidiol or CBD usage to date found that women were more likely than men to use CBD and once they started using it, were likely to drop their traditional medicine. A new survey from Brightfield Group and HelloMD...

July 31, 2017 /CNW/ – Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced that it will make a strategic investment in Hempco for an ownership stake of up to 19.9% on a fully diluted basis, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.
Hempco is one of the world’s largest...

July 20th, 2017 -A recent report by the Hemp Business Journal predicts that the CBD consumer market will grow to $2.1 billion by 2020, with $450 million of those sales coming from hemp-based sources. Some experts have even higher expectations the CBD market,...

May 31st, 2017 - Medical researchers have confirmed what some desperate parents have been claiming for years—that a nonpsychoactive component of marijuana known as cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce epileptic seizures in some children.
Published in The New England...

The top elected Republican in the United States said the U.S. House of Representatives may vote to legalize CBD, potentially opening a bounty of new market opportunities for this form of marijuana oil.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican,...